About

I live on a century farm in rural SW Ontario Canada with my husband, two teenagers, a dog, horse, pony, 6 chickens and too many barn cats to count. My life is Wabi Sabi, the ancient Japanese art of embracing flaws and releasing judgement. My cooking, my garden, my photography. All of it. My house is normally messy. The only vegetables I seem able to grow can be found scattered in my flower beds, growing from the kitchen compost I randomly throw throughout the year (I have the tallest tomato plant ever beside my front steps last summer) My photographs are unstaged and unplanned. They are born of my journey of motherhood. My attempt at living mindfully and with gratitude for my place in the world. And trying to be a wildflower. Accepting the cold winter months as a time for resting before the season of abundance and growth. Oh and I have a strange obsession with clotheslines and have been known to wash clean bedding just so my kids can play in the wet sheets as they dry in the wind.

Currently, I have just started work on a new project titled “Talking To My Grandmothers”. Like so many mothers and women in their 50’s, I am finally knowing the questions which I wasn’t old enough to ask my grandmothers when I had the chance. I may not be able to ask those questions in person anymore, but I can ask the trees. They are my grandmothers, and aunts and ancestors who hold the wisdom that I am so desperately seeking. The life advice which offers me hope during this place in life I never really expected to be at. So on my morning dog walks, I take my camera and my beagle-mix named Scout to the bush at the back of our farm. I wrap my arms around one tree in particular and pray/scream/beg/plead/pray. And she listens. They all listen. And then if I am quiet, they will answer. Sometimes through my photos. Other times when I get back home, I make a cup of tea in a handmade ceramic mug and sit down with a notebook and let their messages to me flow through the pencil onto the paper.

Featured in: Let The Kids Dress Themselves, Light Inspired, Fantastically Flawed, The Gratitude Collaborative, and Lensbaby Photographer Feature . I have been published in Dreamer – A Creative Sketchbook as well as The Long Way Home Magazine and I am a past contributor to Let Them Be Little, 52 Saturday Mornings, Cherish This Day, Our Year Of Stories, The Freelensed and Kids Were Here.

Exhibitions & Publications

The Curated Fridge, Virtual Online Covid Edition - Summer 2020

Gallery In The Grove, Brights Grove, Ontario - Faces, Places and Spaces Juried Show - March/April 2020

Lenscratch - 2019 Favourite Photography Exhibition

PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont - Childhood Juried Show - December 2019

A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas - Summertime Juried Show - July/Aug 2019

The Curated Fridge, Somerville, Massachusetts - Summer 2019

Shots Magazine - Spring 2019

The Curated Fridge Travelling Show – First Fridays Copia, Napa, California – Sept 2018

The Curated Fridge, Somerville, Massachusetts – August 2018

A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas – Summer Juried Show (JHM Award) – June 2017

A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas – She Juried Show (JHM Award) – May 2017

Refined Fool Brewery, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada – April 2017

Lenscratch – 2016 Favourite Photography Exhibition

Feature Shoot/Kids of Kathmandu Gala & Auction – Manhattan, NY – October 2016

Wallaceburg & District Museum, Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada – Juried Show July 2016

LOCAL Curated Art Show, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada – June 2016

The Curated Fridge, Somerville, Massachusetts – May/June 2016

A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas – Childhood Juried Show – March 2016

Wallaceburg & District Museum, Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada – Child’s Play Solo Show March 2016

Smith & Lens, Bay St Louis, Mississipi – Wonderland Juried Show August 2015

Wallaceburg & District Museum, Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada – Juried Art Show – Summer 2015

Clickin’ Moms - 100 Photographers To Watch in 2015

Wallaceburg & District Museum, Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada – Juried Art Show – Summer 2014

National Geographic Daily Dozen July 23, 2019, Nov 21, 2018, Aug 8, 2018, July 15, 2016, June 29, 2016,June 16, 2016, Dec 29, 2015, Dec 14, 2015, Sept 17, 2015, Sept 16, 2015, Sept 4, 2015, July 20, 2015 and June 12, 2015